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“Ida was a planetary woman. She knew—she had seen it proved in math, in words—that the apparent safety of a planet’s solid ground beneath her feet was based on precisely the same physical laws that described the construction of a spaceship, that there was no real difference between the solidity of dirt beneath her feet and the hollowness of sculpted carbon and iron. She knew this for the fact that it was, but Ida Stays was a planetary woman, and it was with a planetary woman’s fear that she froze in the darkness, because Ida did not believe in God, did not believe in any gods at all, only the cold fact of existence and man’s ability to work within the inflexible laws of nature, but somehow she, so human, so unmechanical, somehow she trusted the engineer that had constructed the planets far more than the human ones who had built the ships that flew between them.”
― C.A. Higgins, Lightless

“Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.”
― Rick DeStefanis

“Bolt actions speak louder than words.”
― Craig Roberts, Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom

“If di-Master Strinni knew any sort of sign language, it would be the Human variety.”
― Timothy Zahn, The Domino Pattern

“He took a deep settling breath then said, “What man, having mastered himself, should fear any king?”
― Jay Posey, Every Sky a Grave

“Turtle, Bette, and the others all go inside the coffee place, but I pause out in the parking lot, with its scenic view of the wind-beaten sign for the Little Darlings strip club. Rachael sees me and hangs back too.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, Victories Greater Than Death

“It’s starting to seem that way,” Fergus said. “I don’t think the universe and I have the same sense of humor.”
― Suzanne Palmer, Driving the Deep

“As if any of this makes sense,” she said. “It does to someone,” Fergus said.”
― Suzanne Palmer, Driving the Deep

“The Highbulp frowned. “How me know you not take all treasure, leave Highbulp only one mad dragon? There be lot of treasure, pretty rocks.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight

“The landlord of The Fiddler’s Riddle considered himself to be a man of the world, and this was right, because he was too stupid to be really cruel, and too lazy to be really mean and although his body had been around quite a lot his mind had never gone further than the inside of his own head.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“The figurehead, for example, was certainly vaguely female, although to the Dean’s disappointment it had the same detail as a half-sucked jellybaby.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“There’s a certain type of manager who is known by his call of “My door is always open” and it is probably a good idea to beat yourself to death with your own CV rather than work for him. In Ridcully’s case, however, he meant, “My door is always open because then, when I’m bored, I can fire my crossbow right across the hall and into the target just above the Bursar’s desk.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“The fat man who’d volunteered the glass looked as if he sold things; he had the unpleasant complexion of someone who’d hit too many bottles but missed too many meals.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade